It's Teabag Eve - should I change my avatar?

[EarlG]

Poll question: It's Teabag Eve - should I change my avatar?

I've had my Earl Grey teabag avatar ever since we introduced avatars on DU, as a nod to my username and my British heritage. But all this talk of conservative teabagging has led me on this Teabag Eve to consider changing it.

What say you, good people of DU?

BTW, if you think I should change it, tell me what I should change it to.

[rox63]

1. Yes, but only until this teabag silliness is over with

[Warpy]

2. Only if it's to Truck Nutz

in some dayglo color. That would capture the real spirit of this nonevent, all those poor earnest chumps on the right being led around by Pox News and a bunch of lobbying firms.

They're the ones getting teabagged and they will never realize it.

[derby378]

3. Got a Teabag Day song for ya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qAEdi68caM

[DevonRex]

4. No. Those numbnuts can have the "other" teabag image. YOU have the good one.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. Not until we finish decorating the lounge for this important holiday.

[arcadian]

24. I think we're more excited about the teabagging than the teabaggers are.

[Midlodemocrat]

29. I'm more excited about the impending fail of the teabaggers.

:thumbsup:

[arcadian]

6. No way. You should be seeking compensatory damages from the Teabaggers.

They have sullied your good name! :rofl:

[Hawkeye-X]

7. The real teabag avatar.

You know what I'm talking about...

[Maeve]

8. Never give up your Earl Grey. Jean-Luc Picard wouldn't!

that's for the NextGen Trekkers....
:crazy:

Nah--don't bag the avatar. Give it three months and no one will remember the whole tea-bag brew-ha-ha (all puns intended)

[Deja Q]

12. You mean, the teabagging incident will be... blown over?

:hide:

[Maeve]

18. Well, it's certainly over-blown!

Those who live by the pun, die by the pun...

[Bucky]

33. Yes, that's why it sucks so hard.

Sorry, that pun was just a little too "in your face", wasn't it?

[Maeve]

48. You do understand why puns leave so many people

with a bad taste in their mouths, don't you?

Now we'd better stop or we'll get deleted as a sex sub-thread!

[DearAbby]

9. HOLY FLOPPING TEABAGS, BATMAN!

Of course not, being a thoughtful person, you have your teabags sheaved in a protective bag. Being the thoughtful person your are, they are very protected teabags, fresh and clean. No dirty, stinking sweaty, shriveled up teabags for you!


Hoorah for EarlG!

[Spazito]

10. Don't change a thing!

Keep the teabag, I think it will stand as a humiliating reminder to the freepers who lurk here when their 'teabagging' protest is a miserable failure!

Earl Grey Rules!

[Deja Q]

11. Change it to a tea mug... or at least into Jean-Luc Picard. He loves Earl Gray tea... hot.

[Kitty Herder]

47. I was going to suggest Picard, too, if it must be changed.

Mmmmm..... Picard. Yummier even than the tea he drinks.

[cbayer]

13. No, no, no!

See, there are good teabags and there are bad teabags. You are a good teabag.

Now please fix me a cup - I take 2 sugars and a little milk!

:toast:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

14. Stiff upper lip n all that lad.

Bugger the bastards. They wouldn't know good tea if it was draped across their noses.

:D

EarlG always.

[omega minimo]

28. Don't even..................

:spray:

[EFerrari]

15. I sincerely don't understand why we're giving these wackos so much bandwidth. n/t

[redqueen]

23. Well... it is kinda hilarious...

don't you think?

[johnnie]

16. I was hoping you were going to suggest we all use it tomorrow

That would be the best idea I think. Maybe switch everyone's over just for tomorrow.

[walldude]

17. If it is something you were happy with before

then there is no need to change it. Why would something the right does affect how you present yourself? Keep it. And keep the sense of humor. After all my years on DU the TOP 10 is still the best thing here.

[chollybocker]

19. No. If you change your avatar, it means the tearists have won.

[omega minimo]

31. LOL

[Kingofalldems]

20. Your teabag is a noun

Don't change it.

[MrCoffee]

21. You're the original 'bagger, man.

[redqueen]

22. No, I like it.

I definitely think you should keep it. :)

[The Straight Story]

25. Change it to truck nuts with a tea bag on em

:rofl:

[Tansy_Gold]

26. Ugh! You put Earl Grey in a BAG?????

:hi:

[malaise]

27. Change it to Dilmah

It's way better than Earl Grey and a favorite of liberal and socialist elites in cricket playing countries. :D
http://www.dilmahtea.com/

[omega minimo]

30. Nevah! Earl Grey, by any other avatar, would smell as sweet

:toast:

[Bucky]

32. Hey, if you can't lick 'em, join 'em.

Wait, maybe I should rephrase that.

[Carni]

34. How about "Don't get teabagged vote Dem"

Emblazoned on a nice coffee cup? LOL

[Canuckistanian]

35. If you change it, the nutjobs win

Show some resolve.

[mopinko]

36. this too shall pass.

the hell with them.

[H2O Man]

37. No.

I suspect that the tea parties are, in a sense, a tribute. These people want to change, but they are afraid.

[rug]

38. You don't want to send the wrong message. Replace it with shriveled elephant testicles.

[TygrBright]

39. Change it to a little pile of REAL Earl Grey tea. Or a tea strainer.

Or something authentically British-tea-oriented.

um....

A cucumber sandwich!!

no, maybe better not...

Dang. I never realized how fraught with innuendo the stodgy ol' tradition could be.

confusedly,
Bright

[Patsy Stone]

40. No surrender!

Arrrrr!

[EarlG]

41. The people have spoken!

The teabag lives on!

[Norrin Radd]

42. Use this:

[Arugula Latte]

43. No! It makes it even funnier!

[adamuu]

44. your baby. n/t

[TexasObserver]

45. Keep it! Remember what revolutionary hero Patrick Lipton said ...

"I regret that I have but one tea bag to give for my country."

[Warren DeMontague]

46. You could photoshop Glenn Beck and a pair of testicles ONTO the teabag.

But, really, I'd say just leave it.